My tax dollars. Your luxury properties.
Written by Kyle Magin
If you choose to live in a glass-walled beachfront home with a cutesy name like ‘Sandy Bottoms’ on the Outer Banks or Big Pine Key or any of America’s thousand other coastal retreats for Baby Boomers, you’d think you’d have to assume the risk of climate change-fueled tides ripping that sumbitch...

It’s weird to see schlubby mic jockeys and ink-stained wretches stumping for a billionaire.
Written by Kyle Magin
San Diego’s sports media despises the city’s taxpayers and tourists.
In an all-out effort to save their jobs as it relates to year-round coverage of the San Diego Chargers, the city’s radio, TV, and *some* print media have gone into the tank--a tank filled...

You could argue that San Diego will be just fine without the NFL. We’ve done that. Now we’re gonna do it again.
Written by Kyle Magin
“Do we want to be a world-class city, or just a small town?” - Fred Maas, San Diego Chargers Special Adviser.
Maas, a wealthy Republican consultant and San Diego developer, utters that sentence at the...

And you get a drone and you get a drone and you get a drone.
By Andrew J. Pridgen
GoPro, the company started by the son of the founder of Silicon Valley investment bank Roberston Stephens, is about to be worth as much as the waterproof casing you bought for your 2011 GoPro model which you thought you were going to...

I try and I try and I try...but I can’t seem to understand the point of rooting for the present-day 49ers unless you have that disease Drew Barrymore had in 50 First Dates where you maybe got knocked out sometime in the early ‘90s and every day you wake up thinking the team is great while at the same...

Because nobody should pay for content, and the people who generate it should work for free, right?
By Andrew J. Pridgen
One week ago, reporters and editors in the combined newsroom of DNAinfo and Gothamist, a pair of New York’s biggest digital-only local news orgs, popped $5 champagne from the CVS in victory—they had just voted to join a union.
On Thursday,...

Don’t cry for Mark Helfrich’s imminent firing. Focus on the changes you need to make to be just like him.
By Andrew J. Pridgen
So it can be said, barring any minor miracle that involves a DeLorean careening 88 miles per hour on the rain-slicked pavement of the Lone Pine Mall parking lot, Oregon fans will no longer be exposed...

MLB, NHL and NFL expansion teams fail more often than not and even teams that break even are often mired in the loss column for decades. How a gradual, multi-season approach leading up to the first pitch, puck drop or kick off would ensure the growth of a fan base and the maturation of a team
Written by Kyle Magin
When...

Placer County Supervisors showed little regard for what residents of the Tahoe Basin want in a development by approving a 760-unit Martis Valley West project in October. A lawsuit soon followed. They are now expected to kowtow to current Squaw owner KSL’s mid-20th century mountain-town-as-airport-Hilton vision for Olympic Valley 9 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15 in Kings Beach. How it...

Rape culture purists and corporate gigolos get a punch where it hurts — the pocketbook.
By Andrew J. Pridgen
The Raiderettes finally got something to cheer about Wednesday.
A $1.25 million settlement against their carpetbagging franchise hit the checking of almost 100 cheerleaders with another payout (a similar suit against against the league) still pending.
The original lawsuit filed on behalf of NFL...